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Corridor Digital is a production company based in Los Angeles, California, best known for their video game-themed and visual effects videos on their YouTube channel Corridor. They currently create action short-form VFX videos and mini-series. The group also runs a secondary channel, Sam and Niko, which features vlogs, tutorials, technology products, and showcases behind-the-scenes work of their videos.

History
Corridor founders Sam Gorski and Niko Pueringer began shooting videos together in ninth grade. Their first project was a Star Wars fan film, which took 15 years before it made it onto YouTube. In grade school, Pueringer met Jake Watson, through their participation in cross-country skiing. After college, Watson was reunited with Gorski and Pueringer in Los Angeles upon receiving a photo of the duo in the local newspaper, and has continued to work with Gorski and Pueringer since 2009. For over a year, the group worked as freelance VFX artists and also on films such as Greenside (2009) and Dark Island (2010)—the latter project where they worked with Brandon Laatsch and Freddie Wong. After seeing the successes of Laatsch and Wong on YouTube, they decided to create their own YouTube videos focused around video games.

Sam Gorski
Sam Gorski is one of the founders of Corridor Digital and currently works primarily as director alongside Niko Pueringer. Gorski was raised in Stillwater, Minnesota and have been longtime friends of Niko Pueringer and Brandon Laatsch. His interest into videos and visual effects began in high school.

Niko Pueringer
Niko Pueringer co-founded Corridor Digital and works with Sam Gorski as director. Niko Pueringer is married to Ivy Brown.

Jake Watson
Jake Watson is a Corridor Digital partner, alongside co-founders Gorski and Pueringer, and currently acts as producer. Watson shared his hometown with Gorski and Pueringer; the three of them have been longtime friends. Watson went to law school around the time Corridor was working on the webseries Sync.

Wren Weichman
Wren Talon Weichman began experimenting with visual effects while completing his college degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Portland. He gained much of his VFX skills through After Effects tutorials posted on Video Copilot, constantly learning skills during his studies in college. After graduating in 2011, Weichman entered YouTube's NextUp funding competition which helped him gain popularity and confidence, though initially he did not win any funding. Soon after, Weichman started posting his own visual effects videos onto his own channel, wrenthereaper. Weichman travelled to Los Angeles where he met Sam Gorski, Niko Pueringer, and Freddie Wong—this prompted him to move to L.A. and work towards a YouTube career. He was eventually given a part-time job at Corridor Digital working as a video editor for their second channel, before being responsible for a majority of Corridor's visual effects. Weichman later re-entered a submission for the YouTube NextUp competition, this time winning funding which was used to support a Harry Potter short film, further boosting his popularity and notability as a creator. Weichman is currently the VFX director and editor for Corridor.

Wren and his wife Jenna Weichman have been married since 2014.

David Carmichael
David Carmichael is the main editor for the behind-the-scenes footage on the Sam and Niko channel.

Nick Laurant
Nick Laurant is the cinematographer and editor for Corridor.

Christian Fergenstien
Christian Fergenstien is the business and production manager for Corridor.

Jarrett ___

Jarrett is the art director for Corridor.

Modern Warfare: Frozen Crossing (2010–2011)
This Call of Duty fan-film was one of Corridor's earliest projects, and was done in collaboration with RocketJump. Both episodes of the Frozen Crossing series were uploaded on the RocketJump YouTube channel, while the making-of videos were posted on Corridor's channel. The videos were directed and edited by Gorski and Pueringer, while Freddie Wong worked on the sound design and Brandon Laatsch on special effects. Jake Watson played as agent "Spectre", while Drew Martin played the other protagonist "Dust". The budget of part one was $209 and the second part totalled about $600. The two videos marked the start for Corridor on YouTube and helped them grow their popularity. A third video, Modern Warfare: Frozen Crossing Alpha, was later uploaded featuring panning shots around a "frozen" scene adapted from the main story.

Tether (2012)
Corridor originally wanted to create a full length webseries, based upon a post-apocalyptic world in which mysterious tethers drop from the sky. A teaser, Tether: First Snow, was shown on January 31, 2011. After an unsuccessful collaboration with Machinima, Corridor decided to continue with the story and create a short film to showcase their work up to that point. A 12-minute pilot video was released on May 29, 2012; it was received with interest and showed potential to be a full length project.

Sync (2012)
Sync is a 12-episode webseries originally funded by Google as part of a $100 million project to fund around 100 original channels. The series was made in partner with the Big Frame network and uploaded to Bammo, a YouTube channel showcasing the original work of creators partnered with Big Frame. Episodes one through six were uploaded every four weeks, with the premiere on March 16, 2012. The remaining episodes were uploaded every other Friday, with the twelfth and final episode being released on October 26, 2012. The behind-the-scenes footage was also uploaded to Bammo and showcased the process of directing, acting, editing.

Tom Clancy's The Division: Agent Origins (2016)
To promote the video game release of Tom Clancy's The Division, Ubisoft worked with Corridor, Devin Graham, and RocketJump to produce a live action, four-part series. The short film was based on the video game, and followed the lives of four agents in New York City. It was released on Amazon Prime Video and on Ubisoft's YouTube channel, with the behind-the-scenes posted on Sam and Niko.

Rush: Inspired by Battlefield (2016)
Released on September 20, 2016, Rush: Inspired by Battlefield is a ten-episode live action mini-series inspired by the Battlefield video game series. Corridor partnered with Electronic Arts which allowed them to access the intellectual property of the Battlefield series—Corridor had previously worked on a Battlefield 3 commercial and EA had developed good relations with the group. The web series was released exclusively on Verizon's video streaming service go90; Corridor worked with go90 because they had a budget suitable for a military themed feature film. In an interview with Forbes, Sam Gorski Niko Pueringer and stated that they have been "wanting to make a video game inspired film the right way for years" and that they are "huge fans of the game". The film was directed by Gorski and Pueringer and written by Andrew Allen; cast members included Jeff Schine, Steven Ogg, Lou Ferringo Jr., Mark Leslie Ford, Aqueela Zoll, Stephen Chang, Vlada Verevko, and Brak Little.

Lifeline (upcoming)
An upcoming YouTube Red series featuring a cameo appearance by Dwayne Johnson. Contains eight half-hour episodes.